How to budget when corporations hoard tax cuts, and don't invest in growth

Canadians are about to be offered the kind of budget that the official opposition New Democrats would likely introduce were they in power — one that focuses more on economic stimulation than restraint and more on raising corporate taxes than cutting government spending to reduce the deficit.

“A Budget for the Rest of Us” — the annual “alternative” federal budget being released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on Thursday — will also likely call for enhancement of the Canada Pension Plan instead of the cuts to Old Age Security expected in the March 29 Conservative government